It is Scott Prasser’s baffling contention that the Greens are hypocritical to advocate privacy safeguards because they discuss some policies in, er, private (“Greens challenged to ‘grow up’ on right to privacy”, The Australian, 28/7). He needs to look up “hypocritical” in the dictionary. If it’s illustrated, he may find a picture of Rupert Murdoch decrying phone hacking.